Linkin Park - Go for green

Californian alternative
rock band from Agoura Hills that started life as Xero. Only after singer
Chester Bennington had joined, the career of the band - now known as Hybrid Theory
(an album was given the same title later) – got going a little.

When it really started
to blossom the band wanted to change its name to Lincoln Park, a suggestion of
Bennington, after the green stamp-size park in Santa Monica where Chester often drove by.

When it became clear however that the band’s coveted internet address,
www.lincolnpark.com, was already in use (by Lincoln Park in Chicago; there are
hundreds of Lincoln Parks in America), the spelling was 'phonetised'.